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Re: mother's maiden names...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (R.A. Hettinga)
Wed Jul 13 21:58:19 2005

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Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 13:07:59 -0400
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>,
	cryptography@metzdowd.com
From: "R.A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>

At 12:26 PM -0400 7/13/05, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>Why do banks not collect simple biometric information like photographs
>of their customers yet?

Some do.

Cambridge Trust puts your picture on the back of your VISA card, for
instance. They have for more than a decade, maybe even two.

Cheers,
RAH

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